My cousin Erik died yesterday. A bolt out of the blue – an illness turned into a raging infection that despite heroic measures, couldn’t be… Read More »RIP Erik

We’ve owned our CR-V for a while now – thought I’d jot down my impressions and opinions. Model: 2019 CR-V EX AWD – roughly 52k… Read More »CR-V Update

A few (5?) years ago we decided to “upgrade” our kitchen with stainless steel appliances. After some (possibly flawed?) research, we bought a set of… Read More »Samsung Sucks

In 2022 I found myself in need of a vehicle. Someone in my household got in an accident and totaled their car, and needed to… Read More »Oh Burt, We Hardly Knew Ye

I have a friend who has educated me on this subject. One specific example: he had a stapler on his desk (insert Office Space joke… Read More »Simplify Don’t Optimize

While extracting some dandelions from my back yard (I know, leave them and be bee friendly), I was struck by some of the absurdity of… Read More »A Strange Kind of Farming

I’ve had the opportunity to learn a lot in the last few years. Here are a few of my favorite frameworks/tools (and a few boos).… Read More »Cool (and not so cool) Tools

Have been listening to a lot of astrophysics podcasts to try to cure insomnia (no offense, physicists, and to be clear my undergrad degree is… Read More »(Forward) Time Travel Is Possible (?)

One interesting thing about experience I don’t see written about much, is that like everything else, it is a tightrope. Specifically, having a lot of… Read More »The Raccoon Effect

Early in my career, we talked about “Bare Metal” servers.  This meant that if you wanted to deploy something, you had to order a PHYSICAL… Read More »Bare Vapor